Kim Hill
Esther Kaplan : workplace monitoring
Editor of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, and writer of the cover story in the March issue of Harper's magazine, The Spy Who Fired Me, about workplace monitoring. Audio
Ken Auletta : Google and the future
American journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker since 1977, and is the author of eleven books. He will visit New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival in May. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 4 April 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 April. Audio
Mike McWilliams: science past and future
Chief executive of GNS Science, which this week marked the 150th anniversary of its ancestor, the Geological Survey, the first New Zealand Government science entity. Audio
Lynsey Hayward, Mark Davey, Frantisek Riha-Scott: incontinence
Auckland gynecologist Lynsey Hayward is incoming President of the International Urogynecological Association. Dr Mark Davey and Frantisek Riha-Scott met as alpine ski racers, pursued respective… Audio
Playing Favourites with Sam Neill
Executive producer and presenter of the documentary, Anzac: Tides of Blood, which explores his family's experience with war and the legacy of Anzac on both sides of the Tasman, which will premiere on… Audio
Levi Armstrong: whanau fitness
Founder of whanau-based gym Patu Aotearoa in Hawkes Bay, which won the People's Choice Award in the Akina Foundation's social enterprise accelerator programme. Audio
A history of hair removal
Rebecca M. Herzig is Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Bates College, Maine. Her new book is Plucked: a History of Hair Removal (New York University Press). Audio
Bronwyn Hayward: sustainable prosperity
Associate Professor of Politics and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, who will lead one of nine research teams for the new international Centre for the… Audio
Damon Gameau: sugar surfeit
Australian author and filmmaker who went in front of the camera to explore the impact of a 40-teaspoon daily diet of sugar, eating only food presented as healthy. He documents the results in That… Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Charles Brasch and the Pacific
Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing his new collection, Whale Years, the Art4Vanuatu auction, and the new collection Charles Brasch: Selected Poems. Audio
Alejandro Aravena: housing solutions
Principal of the Elemental architecture practice in Chile, who is visiting New Zealand to deliver the 2015 Futuna Lecture Series. Audio
Alan Cumming
Actor for stage and screen, broadcaster, director, designer, producer and musician, who will be speaking about family memoir, Not My Father's Son, at the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival. Audio
Art with Mary Kisler: William Hodges
Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discusses work by 18th century artist William Hodges. Audio
Jim Kebbell: organics and retail
Former chaplain, who set up Commonsense Organics in Wellington with his wife Marion Wood in the early 1990s, and open their first store in Auckland next week. Audio
Miranda July: bad men and participatory art
Writer, filmmaker and artist whose participatory work includes the messaging app, Somebody. Her debut novel is The First Bad Man. Audio
Tim Naish: Antarctic ice shelves
Director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington. He will discuss the new findings this week on the decrease in volume of Antarctic ice. Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 21 March 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 21 March. Audio
Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Mal Peet
New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many books, most recently, The ACB with Honora Lee (Random House). She will discuss the work of English author Mal Peet, who died at the start of… Audio
Frances Ashcroft: ion channels and diabetes
Professor Frances Ashcroft is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford and director of OXION, a training and research programme on the physiology of ion channels, the proteins… Audio